Events at: Totem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)

Research seminar: Scott Mackie

Dr. Scott Mackie (UBC) will give a research seminar in person on Nov 8.     Title: Exploring Amazon’s M.A.S.S.I.V.E dataset Abstract: MASSIVE (FitzGerald et al. 2023) is a large corpus of 1M+ sentences, created by translating ~20K English sentences into 49 other languages. To date, MASSIVE has only been used for machine learning tasks, […]

Stefan Dollinger research seminar

Stefan Dollinger will present an in-person research seminar on January 17th at 3:30.   Title The Pluricentricity Debate and the long reach of 19th-century linguistics: dehegemonization as an urgent desideratum for a more equitable sociolinguistics Abstract This talk retraces the interesting parts of my thinking over the past decade. Starting with a cross-linguistic comparison of […]

Doug Sladen research seminar

Doug Sladen will give an in-person research seminar on January 24th at 3:30. Title Benefits and Limitations of Cochlear Implants for Children Abstract Cochlear implants (CIs) are auditory prosthetics that provide partial hearing restoration to people with severe hearing loss. Children with congenital severe hearing loss generally receive CIs by 1-year of age and are, […]

Myriam Lapierre colloquium

Myriam Lapierre (University of Washington) will give an in-person colloquium. Two types of [NT]s in Panãra: Implications for the native speaker and scientific communities This talk provides articulatory and perceptual phonetic data on Panãra (ISO code: kre), a Northern Jê language of Central Brazil, supporting the existence of a previously undocumented phonological distinction. Maddieson & […]

Scott AnderBois colloquium

Scott AnderBois (Brown University) will give an in-person colloquium. Title: Discourse coherence and the typology of conjunction   Abstract: Typological and formal literature on conjunction often assumes that conjunction involves a cluster of properties across different levels of the grammar (e.g. cross-categoriality, a flat syntactic structure, restrictions on extraction such as the Coordinate Structure Constraint). Although various […]